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Voices and Texts in Early Modern Italian Society

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Voices and Texts in Early Modern Italian Society book

Voices and Texts in Early Modern Italian Society

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Voices and Texts in Early Modern Italian Society book

Edited ByStefano Dall'Aglio, Brian Richardson, Massimo Rospocher
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 25 November 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547893
Pages 272 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315547893
SubjectsArts
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Dall'Aglio, S. (Ed.), Richardson, B. (Ed.), Rospocher, M. (Ed.). (2017). Voices and Texts in Early Modern Italian Society. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547893

This book studies the uses of orality in Italian society, across all classes, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, with an emphasis on the interrelationships between oral communication and the written word. The Introduction provides an overview of the topic as a whole and links the chapters together. Part 1 concerns public life in the states of northern, central, and southern Italy. The chapters examine a range of performances that used the spoken word or song: concerted shouts that expressed the feelings of the lower classes and were then recorded in writing; the proclamation of state policy by town criers; songs that gave news of executions; the exercise of power relations in society as recorded in trial records; and diplomatic orations and interactions. Part 2 centres on private entertainments. It considers the practices of the performance of poetry sung in social gatherings and on stage with and without improvisation; the extent to which lyric poets anticipated the singing of their verse and collaborated with composers; performances of comedies given as dinner entertainments for the governing body of republican Florence; and a reading of a prose work in a house in Venice, subsequently made famous through a printed account. Part 3 concerns collective religious practices. Its chapters study sermons in their own right and in relation to written texts, the battle to control spaces for public performance by civic and religious authorities, and singing texts in sacred spaces.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

BySTEFANO DALL’AGLIO AND MASSIMO ROSPOCHER

part |2 pages

PART I Public life

chapter 1|14 pages

The early modern Italian shout

ByTHOMAS V. COHEN

chapter 2|15 pages

Voicing popular politics: The town crier of Murano in the sixteenth century

ByCLAIRE JUDDE DE LARIVIÈRE

chapter 3|17 pages

Singing songs of execution in early modern Italy

ByUNA McILVENNA

chapter 4|15 pages

Moving words: Everyday oralities and social dynamics in Roman trials circa 1600

ByELIZABETH S. COHEN

chapter 5|13 pages

The lost performance: Giannozzo Manetti and spoken oratory in Venice in 1448

ByBRIAN JEFFREY MAXSON

chapter 6|14 pages

Orality and writing in diplomatic interactions in fifteenth-century Italy

ByISABELLA LAZZARINI

part |2 pages

PART II Private and social entertainments

chapter 7|11 pages

Singing poetry in compagnia in sixteenth-century Italy

ByPHILIPPE CANGUILHEM

chapter 8|15 pages

Sixteenth-century Italian Petrarchists and musical settings of their verse

ByBRIAN RICHARDSON

chapter 9|14 pages

Serafino Aquilano and the mask of Poeta: A denunciation in the eclogue of Tyrinto e Menandro (1490)

ByFRANCESCA BORTOLETTI

chapter 10|17 pages

‘Civic performance’ in Renaissance Florence

ByPAOLA VENTRONE

chapter 11|13 pages

Reading modern authors: Aretino as host and Speroni’s Dialogo dell’amore

ByPAOLO PROCACCIOLI

part |2 pages

PART III Religion

chapter 12|15 pages

Dantean devotions: Gabriele Barletta’s ‘oral’ Commedia in context NICOLÒ MALDINA

chapter 13|12 pages

Vernacular sermons on the psalms printed in sixteenth-century Italy: An interface between oral and written cultures ÉLISE BOILLET

chapter 14|17 pages

The battle for the piazza: Creative antagonism between itinerant preachers and street singers in late medieval and early modern Italy

ByMASSIMO ROSPOCHER

chapter 15|12 pages

Orality and sacred music in early modern Italy

ByROBERT KENDRICK
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